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“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”
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“I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics”
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“It is the spirit of a person that hangs above him like a star in the sky.”
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“I think I have made just one picture that I really like...”
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“What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?”
Source : Umberto Eco (2003). “Baudolino”, p.353, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.”
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“Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.”
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“I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some dance connection, I applied for and won a place at the local drama school. I was on my way.”
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“Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.”
Source : Luanne Rice (2005). “Summer of Roses”, p.7, Bantam
